Man Ray, Photographs 1920-1934 FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING RARE CATALOGUE !

Man Ray (d. i. Emmanuel Rudnitzky oder Radnitzky).
Photographs 1920-1934. (Avec un Portrait par Picasso – Textes de André
Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy, Tristan Tzara – Préface by Man Ray).
Hartford Connecticut, James Thrall Soby (1934). 4°. [7] Bl. (Text) u.
103 Heliogravuren nach Photographien, davon 19 „Rayographien“ von M.
Ray. Farbig illustr. OKart. mit Kunstoff-Spiral-Bindung.

Auer 210. Bouqueret, Paris 148 ff.
Roth, The Book of 101 Books 80 f (″deuxième édition“). – Sehr seltene
erste Ausgabe; first issue, first printing (″copies with the original
title page are exceedingly rare“ (D. Levy Srauss in Roth). – Texte in
Englisch, Französisch und Deutsch. – „[T]his was Man Ray’s first
monograph, and his friends pulled out all the stops to herald it …
attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the
edition had sold out. After replacing the title pages of these copies
with one stating second edition, he returned them for sale. … It begins
with a portrait drawing of Man Ray by Pablo Picasso and consists of 104
photographs divided into five sections. … Man Ray made several different
studies for the cover; until finally settling on this image of his own
bust looking down on a blue-eyed blonde contemplating a plaster hand
cradling, a fragile lithtbulb that mirrors a catching toy (a ball an a
peg)“ (D. Levy Srauss in Roth). – “Man Ray’s work introduced a
particular note [to Surrealism], since he used photography and
recognized early on that this medium could reproduce the effects of
object-based art in two-dimensional form. Photography was in a position
to preserve the ordinary and to unleash surreal effects” (P. Stepan,
Icons of Photography 26). – Provinienz/Provenance: Collection of Rosa
and Aaron Esman, New York. – Außergewöhnlich gut erhaltenes und sauberes
Exemplar. – Fine, well preserved copy.